Q (disambiguation)

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Q, or q, is the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet.

Q may also refer to:

People

• Q (drag queen)
• Q, pseudonym of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, the Cornish writer
• Q, pseudonym used by the originator of QAnon, an American far-right conspiracy theory
• Q, pseudonym of Quentin Elias in his appearances in gay porn site Randy Blue
• Q, stage name for Qurram Hussain of JoSH
• Q, stage name for Q Marsden
• Q, nickname for NBA assistant coach Bruce Fraser
• Q, or Q Martel, nicknames of Giffard Le Quesne Martel
• Q, nickname for Joel Quenneville
• Q, nickname of Qaushiq Mukherjee, an Indian film director
• Q, nickname of Quincy Jones
• Q, nickname of American basketball player Quintin Dailey (1961–2010)
• Q, nickname of former American football player Anquan Boldin
• Q, main dancer and vocalist of South Korean boy band The Boyz
• Maggie Q (born 1979), American actress
• Schoolboy Q, rapper
• Stacey Q, disco singer
• Brian "Q" Quinn
  , member of the American comedy troupe The Tenderloins

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Q (James Bond), a character in the James Bond novels and films
• Q (Star Trek), a character and the name of the character's species
• Q (Street Fighter)
  , a character from the video game series Street Fighter
• Q, an amnesiac child from the video-game Zero Time Dilemma
• Quinton "Q" Brooks, a character from the TV series Moesha
• Ah Q, the main character in the novella The True Story of Ah Q
• The Q, a character from the TV series The Lost Islands

Literature

• Q (magazine), British music magazine
  • Q Awards, yearly music awards given by Q magazine
• Q (novel), historical novel by Luther Blissett first published in Italian in 1999
• Q source, also known as Q document, a hypothetical early Gospel writing (Bible)
• "Q" Is for Quarry, the seventeenth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet mystery" series, published in 2002

Music

• Q (1970s band), an American disco group
• SSQ (band), formerly Q, an American synth-pop band
• Q (album), Japanese language album by Mr. Children, 2000
• Q, jazz album by Tom Hasslan's Krokofant
• "Q" (song), by Mental Cube (The Future Sound of London), 1990
• "Q", a song by AAA, 2006

Networks, stations, and channels

• Q (TV network)
  , Philippine network previously known as Quality TeleVision (QTV)
• ARY Qtv, a Pakistani television channel
• Q Radio, a UK radio station run by Q magazine
• Q Television Network, an American cable television network
• Q TV, a UK music channel based on Q magazine
• Q Channel, former names of
  BTV
  , an Indonesian television network

Other titled works

• Q (1982 film), horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen (Also known as Q – The Winged Serpent)
• Q (2011 film), French film
• q (radio show), CBC Radio One show, formerly called Q
• Q (TV series)
  , Spike Milligan's BBC2 comedy series that ran between 1969 and 1983
• Q, the production code for the 1965 Doctor Who serial The Space Museum

Business and government

• Q (dairy), Norwegian dairy brand
• Q clearance, United States Department of Energy security clearance
• Q Score, in marketing, way to measure the familiarity of an item
• Q Theatre, a theatre in London, England
• Q-telecom
  , Greek operator
• Motorola Q, smartphone released in 2006
• Pentax Q, mirrorless interchangeable lens camera released in 2011
• Tobin's q, a financial ratio developed by James Tobin

Computing and computer games

• Amazon Q, AI–powered assistant released in 2023
• Q (cipher), encryption algorithm
• Q (emulator), open-source x86 emulator for Mac OS X
• Q (equational programming language)
  , functional programming language based on term rewriting
• Q (game engine), 3D middleware from Qube Software
• Q-learning, AI algorithm
• Q (number format), fixed-point number format built into certain computer processors
• Q (programming language from Kx Systems), array processing language
• Q (software), a computer software package for molecular dynamics simulation
• Q Sharp (Q#), domain-specific programming language
• Q, a channel service in QuakeNet's IRC services
• Panasonic Q
  , a hybrid video game console between a GameCube and a DVD player, manufactured by Nintendo and Panasonic
• Q*
  , a rumored OpenAI project
• Q Entertainment, developer of Rez HD and the Lumines and Meteos games
• Q-Games, developer of the Pixel Junk series of PlayStation 3 games

Engineering

• Q, the standard abbreviation for an electronic transistor, used e.g. in circuit diagrams
• Q the first moment of area, used in calculating shear stress distributions
• Q, the
  reactive power
  component of apparent power
• Q Factor (bicycles)
  , the width between where the pedals attach to the cranks
• Q factor or Q in resonant systems, a measurement of the effect of resistance to oscillation

Linguistics

• Voiceless uvular stop
  in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• Abbreviation for Question

Mathematics

• ${\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} }$ or Q, set of all rational numbers
• Q, the Quaternion group
• Q, Robinson arithmetic, a finitely axiomatized fragment of Peano Arithmetic
• Q value in statistics, the minimum false discovery rate at which the test may be called significant

Science

Biology and chemistry

• Q, the symbol for discharge (hydrology)
• q, an abbreviation for "every" in medicine
• Q, abbreviation for the amino acid, glutamine
• Q, abbreviation for quinone
• q, designation for the long arm of a chromosome
• Q, reaction quotient
• Cardiac output (Q), the volume of blood pumped by each ventricle per minute
• Coenzyme Q
  , a carrier in electron transport
• Haplogroup Q (mtDNA), a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup
• Haplogroup Q-M242 (Y-DNA)
  , a Y-chromosomal DNA (Y-DNA) haplogroup
• Q value (nuclear science), the differences of energies of the parent nuclides to the daughter nuclides

Physics and astronomy

• Q or q, dynamic pressure
  • Max q
• Q, electric charge
• q, elementary charge
• Q, Fusion energy gain factor
• Q, heat
• q, momentum transfer
• Q, quasar
• q, quecto-, a metric prefix of 10⁻³⁰
• Q, quetta-, a metric prefix of 10³⁰
• Q,
  Toomre's Stability Criterion
• Q, volumetric flow rate
• q, quark

Sports

• Great Southern Bank Arena, formerly JQH Arena, a nickname for the arena on the campus of Missouri State University
• Q (San Jose Earthquakes mascot)
  , furry blue mascot of the Major League Soccer team San Jose Earthquakes
• San Diego Stadium, later Qualcomm Stadium, a nickname for a stadium in San Diego, California
• Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
  , often referred to as "The Q"
• Q, a nickname for Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, Cleveland, Ohio; from the arena's previous name, Quicken Loans Arena

Transportation

• Q (New York City Subway service)
• Q-ship, converted merchant vessels with concealed armament intended to lure and destroy submarines
• , the official West Japan Railway Company service symbol for the Kansai Line and Yamatoji Line.

Other uses

• Q Society of Australia, right-wing, anti-Islamic political society
• Q, a nickname for Chuluaqui-Quodoushka, a series of New Age sexual meditation exercises developed by Harley Reagan
• Quintals
  , an archaic method of measuring crop yield, was often abbreviated as q
• Quarter, as in "Q1", "Q2", "Q3" and "Q4", a three-month period in a calendar year
• Q. texture
  , a Taiwanese term describing the ideal texture of many foods
• Initiative Q
  , a new payment network and digital currency devised by Saar Wilf
• Quebec
  , the military time zone code for UTC−04:00
• Sky Q, a subscription-based television and entertainment service
• The Q (nightclub), an LGBT nightclub in New York City

See also

• Cue (disambiguation)
• Kyū, rank, in Japanese martial arts and other Japanese grading systems
• QQ (disambiguation)
• QQQ (disambiguation)
• QQQQ (disambiguation)
• Queue (disambiguation)
• Suzie Q (disambiguation)

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